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TIL NASA will send a probe to an asteroid, land on it, and harvest a boulder from it. Then bring it into the moon’s orbit for spacewalking astronauts to collect samples.

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d8pnj TIL Germany still pays pensions to Nazy veterans.
6dVJ TIL that WD-40 can be used to remove paint marks from cars, oil stains from driveways, and tomato stains from clothes, keep away roaches, “polish” plastic patio furniture, +46 more uses.
DNjD TIL that in 1951, MGM owed the dog who played Lassie $40,000 in back pay. Not planning any more Lassie movies, MGM instead gave the rights to the Lassie trademark to the dog’s trainer, who spun it off into a TV show that ran for 19 seasons.
ADO5d TIL of chess boxing. Alternating between 3 minutes of chess and 3 minutes of boxing until achieving knockout in one of them.
GYErj TIL a statue of Penn State head coach Joe Paterno was unveiled in 2001, alongside a wall with a quote from Paterno- "I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach." It was removed in 2012 following the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.